The Most-Used Commands
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jfile
Searches the Jargon File.
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Created 2008-09-14 12:55:49
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2011-01-21 10:54:22
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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Awww.catb.org%2Fjargon%2Fhtml+%s
sonypl
A command to search Sony's Polish website.
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Created 2008-09-19 08:16:01
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2009-02-05 12:58:56
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http://www.google.com/search?q=%s+site%3Asony.pl
gopubmed
Searches GoPubMed.
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Created 2008-09-23 07:29:29
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2010-08-21 14:31:34
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http://www.gopubmed.org/search?q=%s
ohloh
Ohloh is an open source directory that anyone can edit. It features comprehensive metrics and analysis on thousands of open source projects.
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Created 2008-11-03 13:14:38
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2017-01-19 07:05:36
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https://www.ohloh.net/
tie
How to tie a tie
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Created 2007-06-18 05:18:44
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2021-10-18 06:49:50
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http://www.scoutdb.org/h2tat/
clzip
Shows free items on Seattles Craigslist. Y ou don't need a parameter, but if you put one, then it will search by that keyword within the free items in seattle
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Created 2007-07-10 22:13:44
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2015-08-16 01:01:03
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http://seattle.craigslist.org/search/zip?query=%s
pr1
check pr
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Created 2007-07-20 17:20:29
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2011-01-14 12:44:45
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http://www.freelance-help.com/google-ranking-report/pagerank-checker.php?url=http%3A%2F%2F%s
wmbank
leads to washington mutual bank
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Created 2007-07-25 08:11:26
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2007-10-06 05:40:29
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https://online.wamu.com/IdentityManagement/Logon.aspx
orchestra
30 uses
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Created 2007-08-14 01:08:08
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2016-10-29 12:17:53
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http://lists.sunsetpres.org/admin/orchestra
css2
Cascading Style Sheets, level 2, CSS2 Specification
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Created 2007-08-30 20:09:41
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2025-02-26 06:49:49
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http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/
tdir
I thought the other commands for searching TigerDirect were too long to keep retyping.
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Created 2008-11-15 16:51:35
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2014-04-28 20:40:21
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http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/search.asp?keywords=%s&image1.x=0&image1.y=0
whost
Find out who is the hosting provider of any website using WhoIsHostingThis.com's services. Example: whost domain.com
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Created 2008-12-08 08:10:16
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2018-12-05 12:34:18
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http://www.whoishostingthis.com/%s
cprog
C++ Reference from www.cplusplus.com
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Created 2008-12-11 14:23:34
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2017-03-26 19:07:38
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http://www.cplusplus.com/query/search.cgi?q=%s
scam
Search through ComplaintsBoard.com to see if a company has received any scam complaints. Syntax: scam <company name> Example: scam Easy Money Online
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Created 2008-12-15 10:44:06
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2022-10-06 19:18:58
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http://www.complaintsboard.com/?search=%s
nysop
NYS Office of Professions License Verification
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Created 2008-12-30 16:25:35
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2014-01-29 07:16:22
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http://www.op.nysed.gov/opsearches.htm
dma
Looks up a word in the old italian De Mauro online dictionary.
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Created 2009-01-14 19:33:46
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2026-04-09 00:11:29
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http://old.demauroparavia.it/_%s
tracfone
TracFone is a cell phone company.
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Created 2009-01-21 03:39:09
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2018-11-28 08:31:36
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http://www.tracfone.com/
pert
Simple PERT calculation, taking in the best, likely, and worst case estimates. Example: Best 2 hours Likely 4 hours Worst 9 hours pert -a 2 -b 4 -c 9
30 uses
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Created 2009-02-05 21:27:33
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2023-04-02 07:55:36
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http://www.google.com/search?q=(${a}%2B(4(${b}))%2B${c})%2F6&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
gbsj
google blog search (in Japanese only) ex)If you'd like to search "ドラえもん" gbsj ドラえもん
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Created 2009-02-23 02:22:58
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2011-02-13 09:27:24
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http://blogsearch.google.co.jp/blogsearch?hl=ja&ie=UTF-8&q=%s&btnG=%E3%83%96%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B0%E6%A4%9C%E7%B4%A2&lr=lang_ja
rstat
search ROLLYO for information related to the R statistical software (brought to you by Dan Goldstein)
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Created 2009-03-11 10:06:52
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2017-05-04 04:01:59
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http://www.rollyo.com/search.html?q=%s&x=22&y=8&sid=64453&togo-v=1
shd
Shahi is a visual dictionary that combines Wiktionary content with Flickr images, and more! / Example: shd word
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Created 2009-04-18 03:28:32
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2021-03-17 13:04:08
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http://blachan.com/shahi/%s
es2fr
Translate a spanish word to french via wordreference.com / Traduit un mot espagnol en français avec le site wordreference [log2g]
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Created 2009-06-07 09:06:11
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2013-08-28 01:42:06
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http://www.wordreference.com/esfr/%s
tan
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Created 2009-06-19 04:08:57
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2024-10-24 16:46:39
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http://www.gmail.com
serchilo
Use the service serchilo (similar to yubnub) To search via google for "pizza chicago" (as possible with yubnub) Example: serchilo g pizza chicago To show serchilo commands in the category "shopping" Example: serchilo wiki Category:Shopping
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Created 2009-06-20 15:45:04
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2015-12-30 05:33:25
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http://serchilo.net/%s
endless
sie deneme 1-2-3- hoooopppp deface :D turkishajan
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Created 2009-09-14 09:53:03
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2020-04-12 08:27:51
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http://endless
tarr
Submit a URL to the URL shortening service TinyArro.ws. This service uses Unicode characters to provide extremely short URLs (as short as six) in the form http://➡.ws/늸 . Syntax: tarr URL (Copied from "tinyarrows" command.)
30 uses
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Created 2009-10-02 17:08:08
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2016-03-21 07:34:10
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http://tinyarro.ws/api-create.php?url=%s
gsa
Search Google South Africa for a term. Usage gsa keyword
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Created 2009-10-06 17:29:22
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2025-06-12 03:50:19
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http://www.google.co.za/search?hl=en&q=%s&btnG=Search&meta=cr%3DcountryZA
unf
Searching Unfuddle
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Created 2010-01-12 10:26:56
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2011-11-29 15:28:51
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https://elc.unfuddle.com/account/search?query=%s
gjava
Java Google Code Search
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Created 2010-01-22 15:28:33
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2020-11-20 17:57:19
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http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=fr&sa=N&q=%s++lang:java&ct=rr&cs_r=lang:java
googletrends
NAME googletrends - Google Trends SYNOPSIS googletrends [KEYWORD1] [KEYWORD2] [KEYWORD3] -days [DATE] EXAMPLES googletrends clinton bush obama googletrends firefox safari google+chrome -days 2009 Google Trends allows you to create graphs that visually track "buzz" over time for certain key words, phrases or links. NOTES Commande to combine/split with blogplustrends and icerockettrends AUTHOR ycc
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Created 2010-01-24 16:45:40
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2022-06-13 16:48:52
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http://www.google.com/trends?q={% 1 %s},{% 2 %s},{% 3 %s},{% 4 %s},{% 5 %s}&ctab=0&geo=all&date=${days=ytd}[no url encoding]
numerify
NAME numerify - Removes non-numeric characters from a given string. SYNOPSIS numerify [STRING] numerify uses Stephen Paul Weber's foreach command to manipulate and parse a string so that all of the non-numerical characters can be removed. If there are no numbers in the string, a "1" will be returned. EXAMPLES numerify R2-D2 Returns 22. numerify Artoo Returns 1. AUTHOR Paul M. Boren pmboren AT gmail DOT com
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Created 2010-03-13 10:10:45
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2016-03-25 10:26:58
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strReplace -find " " -replace -string {foreach {explode {strReplace -find " " -replace , -string {foreach {explode {strReplace -find " " -replace , -string {ord %s}}} -cmd asciinum}}} -cmd chr}
jaa
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Created 2010-04-20 14:56:51
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2015-08-22 10:00:35
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http://jajah.com/call/
mfox
Search manga in mangafox.com
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Created 2010-05-16 16:22:26
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2014-10-09 11:12:38
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http://www.mangafox.com/search.php?name=%s
les_angles_cam1
A utiliser avec mash2 pour voir les caméras en bas des pistes de la station des angles.
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Created 2008-02-18 08:14:53
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2008-03-13 18:35:41
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http://www.les-angles.com/camera1.htm
uwn
NAME uwn - see the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter issue of your choice. SYNOPSIS uwn [ ISSUE_NUMBER ] -tr [ LANGUAGE_CODE ] uwn helps you find any issue of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter that is archived on the Ubuntu Linux wiki at https://wiki.ubuntu.com. The translation parameter, tr, is optional. Currently there are just a few translations to choose from, but here are the language codes: ES (Spanish), Fr (French), Pt (Portuguese), PtBr (Portuguese for Brazil). De may also work for German. NOTE: Not …
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Created 2008-02-19 21:41:38
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2010-05-07 22:09:23
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https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue%s/{IfEmpty ifEmpty -value ${tr} -then -else ${tr}}
fone
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Created 2008-02-24 08:52:19
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2012-12-07 00:42:19
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http://phonefavs.com/mob/?u=%s
z0r2
A redo of the z0r command. Now, you may inter a desired number and go directly to that page, or leave the command blank and a random page will be returned. Example z0r2 <number> or just Z0r2
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Created 2008-03-01 09:57:02
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2008-03-12 21:02:46
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http://z0r.de/{ifempty -value %s -then ?id={random -min 1 -max 1099} -else ?id=%s}
mp3gle
Search and play mp3 with mp3gle. New in march 2008 Created by l3utterfish.
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Created 2008-03-07 11:30:24
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2012-09-14 11:11:19
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http://mp3gle.net/index.php?search=%s
avc
AV Club Search
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Created 2008-04-05 02:22:33
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2025-01-17 15:47:27
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http://www.avclub.com/content/search/av/advanced2?search=%hostel&restrict=
bookzilla
search bookzilla, shop books and support the free software foundation.
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Created 2008-04-09 09:13:29
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2022-07-18 17:20:12
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https://www.bookzilla.de/shop/action/quickSearch?aUrl=90006951&searchString=%s
giso
type -what ->then the file you are searching for enjoy
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Created 2008-04-26 01:26:11
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2015-06-09 13:34:47
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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=+-inurl%3Ahtm+-inurl%3Ahtml+-inurl%3Aphp+-inurl%3Aasp+intitle%3A%22index+of%22+%22Last+modified%22+iso+%22${what}%22&btnG=Search
Interviews
An Interview with Galway Kinnell
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Created 2008-04-26 05:13:30
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2017-06-08 12:07:56
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http://www.bookslut.com/
newsfix
Addict-o-matic's news search.
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Created 2008-05-10 11:34:38
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2008-10-21 13:44:00
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http://addictomatic.com/topic/%s
h2w
To convert html to wiki language (more efficient than html2wiki command). [Pour convertir de l'htlm en langage wiki (mieux que la commande html2wiki)
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Created 2008-06-03 07:57:20
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2013-07-26 05:58:02
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http://openfacts2.berlios.de/html2wiki/index.php
23c3
search the 23c3 public wiki
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Created 2006-12-26 15:35:24
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2015-12-28 11:07:34
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http://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/Special:Search?search=%s&go=Go
stein
enuri
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Created 2007-01-10 00:42:20
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2022-08-09 12:45:27
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http://www.enuri.com/view/List.jsp?cate=06090601&from=search&skeyword=%s&cate_keyword=Y
linuxman
LinuxQuestions.org man pages.
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Created 2007-01-14 03:23:27
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2015-05-31 17:34:23
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http://man.linuxquestions.org/index.php?query=%s
strange
Strange news links
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Created 2007-01-14 16:27:55
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2019-11-22 09:42:00
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http://www.blosker.com
rks
Search the Ruby Kitchen Sink.
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Created 2007-01-29 14:27:52
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2024-05-25 08:44:55
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http://www.google.com/cse?cx=010523519311069955097%3Akffylwgripa&q=%s
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